231 Quotes by Mikhail Bulgakov

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

A dog's spirit dies hard.

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang!

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!

Учиться читать совершенно ни к чему, когда мясо и так пахнет за версту.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?